"Perform being desirable and normal or you won't get a woman" is actually perfectly acceptable and the foundation of basically all complex, sexually reproducing life and I don't want to hear shit about hearts and minds.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.